You can give your Mac hard drive come breathing room by relocating iMovie footage to an external firewire hard drive.

When you first started using your shiny new Mac, you thought the hard drive was so large you would never run out of storage. Then you started using iMovie for video, and now your Mac hard drive is almost full. Fortunately, you can free up lots of space on your Mac hard drive by moving iMovie video footage to an external hard drive. Dragging the video files in Finder will not work - doing this properly is a two-step process.
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Vista has a nice Games Window that you can easily access by clicking on the start button. It is usually located on the right - below “Documents”, “Pictures”, and “Music”.

Sometimes it seems that for no particular reason, launching this Games Window takes a long time. And then when you select a game to launch, such as Spider Solitaire, the game takes a long time to load. There is an easy fix for this.
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Microsoft, like many companies right now, is looking to trim its sails a bit. The company just announced that after 19 years it is pulling the plug on Microsoft Money. They will stop selling it after June 30 2009, and will stop supporting it in another year or two.

We recommend anyone using Microsoft Money begin transitioning to another product such as Quicken right away. Quicken, from Intuit, has been in business 25 years and is the current category leader in the space of personal financial management software. There are tools for converting your data, but they are currently limited.

According to USA Today, Microsoft and Intuit are working on a better transfer solution by fall of this year.

In this economic climate it is more important than ever to get the most value for your money when purchasing a computer for your business. Dell has had a policy for a long time that Dell products purchased directly from dell.com can be returned for repayment or substitution within 30 days. Dell has an Asset Recovery Business that takes these returned computers, refurbishes them, and sells them in an online store.

These computers come with the same warranty as new units, ranging from one to three years depending on make and model.
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Sometimes Microsoft Outlook gets stuck in a loop trying to receive mail. There can be many causes of this, but often this situation is due to a bad piece of mail in the inbox on your mail server that Outlook and/or your Antivirus software just cannot process. The offending email may have a bad attachment/virus, or the email may be badly formatted in some other way.
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Pre-configured Windows 2003 servers are commonly ordered by small businesses. Dell ships some great ones, but they have an annoying habit of configuring a very small C partition for the pre-installed OS. Sometimes they do this even if you have specifically modified the order to prevent it. For Desktop PCs, a terrific tool you can use to resize any partition is Acronis Disk Director. Equivalent tools for servers are very expensive, but if you get a new Dell Windows 2003 server shipped in this state, there is a neat trick to fix the issue if you so wish that does not rely on expensive third-party software.
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Before you donate or recycle your blackberry, you should protect your privacy by wiping out all of the personal information on the device. Here is the procedure:

• Remove the SIM card and reboot the blackberry.

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On Memorial Day in Duluth, Georgia the streets and public squares are lined with flags and crosses, honoring those who gave their all to defend our freedom and liberties.

Sometimes you need to uninstall your current AntiVirus product. Maybe you are switching to a different AntiVirus product or maybe you are trying to solve a problem by reinstalling you existing AntiVirus product.

Whatever your reason for uninstalling, this can normally be accomplished by going to the Control Panel and running Add/Remove Programs (Windows 2000, XP) or Programs and Features (Vista, Windows7). In case that does not work, the vendors provide some helpful tools to assist you:

GRISOFT provides this for AVG.

Symantec has this for removing Norton.

The McAfee removal tool is here.

HP has announced voluntary recalls and replacement programs for some of the battery packs used in some HP and Compaq laptops. If you have one of these recalled battery packs, you may be eligible to receive a free replacement battery pack.

These recall programs were announced on May 14 2009, October 30 2008, April 20 2006, and October 14 2005.

If your battery back is identified as being included in this recall program, you should replace it even if you are having no problems with the battery pack. This is due to a potential saftey issue with the battery pack.

Full details can be found here